Wool-oiling machine



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F. G; SARGENTQ Wool-Oiling Machine. No. 224,044. Patented Feb. 3, 1880.

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Wool-Oiling Machine.

No.-224, O44. Patented Feb. 3, I880 N.PTERs. PHOW-LITNOGRAPHERWASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFI E.

FREDERICK ,Gr. SARGENT, OF GRANITEVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

\NOOL-OILING MACHINE:

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,044, dated February3, 1880.

Application filed April 25:}, 1879.

wool preparatory to carding or other working.

y The object of my invention is to provide a machine which shall besimple, durable, and

. effective, and which shall avoid the numerous defects which priormachines exhibit.

The nature of the invention will fully appear from the subjoineddescription, when considered with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts, Figure 1 is a top-plan view of my machine. Fig. 2is an end view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line A B of Fig. 1.

A is the tank in which the oil is placed and in which the cylinder B Brevolves. O is the brush, which, touching the bars or cylinder, takessome of the oil brought up by it, and when released from contact with itthrows the oil in a spray upon the wool passing beneath, This throwingdown of the oil is caused by the resilience of the filaments of thebrush, and may be increased by giving a reciprocal movement to thebrush. This may be accomplished by means of the arms H H, moved by theshaft D through the eccentric E to rock the shaft F, to which the brushis attached, or by moving the shaft F in a rockin g manner by anyconvenient mechanism.

D. is the shaft on which the cylinder revolves, which is driven in anysuitable manner by the other wool-working machinery. E is the eccentricwhich actuates the rock-shaft F, to which the brushis attached. Thisshaft can be held in any position desired by the setscrews 8, if it bedisconnected from the moving machinery.

G Gr are the bed or foot'pieces, to which the tank is attached by screws9, which pass through holes in the foot-pieces G and into the body ofthe tank A. These holes in piece G may be elongated, if desired, tofacilitate wishes to makethe brush touch the edge ofit.

HH are the arms connected to the rock-shaft, to which the brush-isattached. These arms are made adjustable, so that the brush may beplaced in any position desired. These arms are connected with theeccentric upon the shaft D and the rock-shaft F, so that when the shaftrevolves the brush attached to the rockshaft will be vibrated.

The cylinder may be made of wire-gauze or of bars formed of wire, asbefore mentioned, placed horizontally at an equal distance from andparallel to the shaft forming its axis. By this construction the oil orgrease is taken up to the brush between the meshes or between the wiresin a greater and more uniform quantity than by a plain or smooth surfaceor roller, because it will be held in the meshes of the gauze or betweenthe wires, from whence it will be delivered upon the face of the brushmore evenly than it would be from a smooth surface.

When a plain surface revolving through the oil is used to convey it tothe brush, and the brush is broughtin contact with it, the end or faceof said brush will be sprung back by such contact, and the pressurebeing uniform, or nearly so, and continuous the oil will be swept theadjustment of the tank when the operator forward in a wave-like form,and the brush will, when removed from such contact, be found to have anexcess of oil upon the side of the advance filaments or bristles, withvery lit tle among or between them.- If, therefore, any

attempt be made to throw off the oil on the brush upon the wool, it willbe thrown down in a few large drops or masses, because only theaccumulation which was on the advance side of the brush will bedisengaged, the capillary attraction of the brush holding fast the smallamount which was taken between the bristles or filaments on the ends ofthe brush; or if any of the small portions of oil be thrown from betweenthe filaments by the jar given the brush, or by the resilience of itsparts, it will in no way remedy the unevenness caused by the largermasses from the front of the brush.

WVhen my improved form of gauze or wirebar cylinder is used the oil isbrought up between the meshes or wires in drops or quan tities adheringto or between the wires, and the brush, being brought in contact withthem, has its filaments or bristles separated asits end passes from oneto another of the wires, and a larger quantity of oil is taken betweenthe filaments of the brush while so opened and separated, and no largequantity is swept ahead of the brush, because the oil is protected fromsuch action by lying or passing between the wires, and consequently,when the brush is removed from contact with the cylinder or bars, theresilience of its material or the action of the machine vibrating itthrows down upon the wool a large number of small drops from the ends ofthe filaments or bristles and no large quantities from its forward side.

The cylinder, when constructed of wire bars, may have the Wire backed orre-enforced with flat bars of metal, to give them additional strengthand stiffness, if desired, without departing from the spirit of myinvention.

When the cylinderis formed of wire bars the brush can be made stationaryand placed near enough to the axis of the cylinder to have the ends ofthe filaments of said brush come in contact with the bars and be sprungbackward thereby; then the resilience of the bristles or filaments ofthe brush, as they pass off the bars, will throw down the oil withoutthe use of mechanism to rock or vibrate the brush.

The brush is made stationary by uncoupling the arm H, which connects itwith the eccentrio, and putting a set-screw in the box in which itbears, or in any other convenient manner. The brush is made totouch thebars by 'adjusting the arms which support the shaft F; but when thecylinder is formed of wire-gauze the shaft F must be rocked downward,carrying the brush with it after it has touched the cylinder, therebythrowing down the oil taken by the brush from the cylinder.

The brush can be made of bristles, or, as I prefer to make it, of wireor films of metal, as when so constructed it is more durable and doesnot so readily lose its resilience by absorbing the oil.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1s- 1. The combination of thetank A, the wire cylinder B. formed of wire bars, and the brush 0,substantially as described.

2. The combination of the tank A, wire-bar cylinder B, and brush 0, madeof wire or filaments of metal, which, by a resilient motion, throws theoil taken from the cylinder directly upon the wool, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination of the tank A, wire cylinder B, brush 0, rock-shaft'F, arms H H, eccentric E, and shaft D, as and for the purposesubstantially as described.

FREDERICK GRANDERSON SARGENT.

Witnesses G. F. HORNE, A. O. SARGENT.

